A different sort of 'pledge week': To raise awareness of the plight of the homeless, Pi Lamda Phi member Patrick Christner and some of his frat brothers are living in shelters made of plywood and tarps on the campus of Winona State University in Winona, Minn. The fraternity is taking donations of money, food and clothing to the local food bank, Goodwill and the Salvation Army.

Photo: Andrew Link, Associated Press

A different sort of 'pledge week': To raise awareness of the plight...

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How about manila wafers? The Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, Pa., has no binders full of women, but it does have platters full of candidate sugar cookies.

Photo: Keith Srakocic, Associated Press

How about manila wafers? The Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, Pa., has no...

A Cambodian woman wipes her tears as she mourns the late King Norodom Sihanouk at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Tens of thousands lined roads in the capital to welcome the return of Sihanouk's body from China.

Photo: Wong Maye-E, Associated Press

A Cambodian woman wipes her tears as she mourns the late King...

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Can I keep him, Dad? Five-year-old Samiullah Afsar carries a puppy he found in a pile of garbage on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.